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@WhistleblowingT I was quite sick from about 6 weeks and so I spoke to the head privately and explained and said I wasn’t telling anyone but wanted to let her know early to do a risk assessment as I was so poorly at the start. It was completely fine and she waited patiently for me to tell people

@mrbwteach The whole paper was marked fairly generously because of the complaints. I marked Germany

@mrbwteach From memory it was something like level as you would and then it can’t be top of the level band

@WhistleblowingT You have to assume that they were the most suitable candidate that applied for the post

@WhistleblowingT I’m not a HOD so not quite the same but some weeks I’m so busy that who I speak to is an accident based on who is in front of me in the staff room. Unless they’re actively rude or avoiding you I wouldn’t worry

@WhistleblowingT The not being professional is obviously bad. But telling them verbally that you’ve accepted another job can be considered resignation surely. The school will want to be able to replace you and that will need to happen quickly in view of the upcoming deadline

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@WhistleblowingT This hasn’t happened to me but it is possible that they have had lots of requests and not been able to approve them all because each course generates something like 5 days of cover just for the face to face events. Head may have had to prioritise who can go

@WhistleblowingT Not normally no

@WhistleblowingT I started back first week of summer hols as my school allowed me to do that. I also started my mat leave the first week back after Easter so I was paid for Easter hols. I then used my KIT days in July to get prepped for September

@WhistleblowingT Your “correct” hours can be worked out by taking the number of lessons in the week and taking 20% off (10 ECT, 10 PPA). If your school does 30 lessons your max will be 24. If they do 25, it will be 20. And so on. It’s a percentage of the school timetable in FE same as others

After MfL and Computer Science, history is the most harshly graded/hardest subject at GCSE.

@RogersHistory The daft thing about teaching is that I’m 28, on M6 and that’s it I’m stuck for life if I don’t go into leadership. I’ve peaked at 28. How do they expect to make teaching a good career option for life if teachers reach the pay cap before they turn 30

An opportunity for full time classroom teachers to continue to do the role that they were originally employed to do and potentially earn what SLT, Heads and CEOs do, should exist. Football is a good example. Top footballers can earn infinitely. Top managers can earn infinitely. In teaching, top teachers can never earn that much, top CEOs can make a killing.

@ToniMoth @WhistleblowingT 6 x 1hr periods. 8:30-3:45. Form time at start (25), then break (10) and lunch (40) deducted

@Sko0lyard @WhistleblowingT I don’t disagree but a 22hr week in a 32.5hr timetable doesn’t sound totally unreasonable

@histapprentice @WhistleblowingT When there’s a staffing crisis and retention issue? Pay and conditions should be improving across the board it’s more vital than ever

@ThomasChesney @WhistleblowingT Early career teacher Senior leadership team

@WhistleblowingT When you send these out you should include text explaining any acronyms.

Enjoying the (small amount of!) thinking space that post-Y11 term six brings. I had a play around with a Y8 lesson from the power unit on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Very much a work in progress so any advice, constructive criticism welcome. I started with this...

'Slavery was one of the sparks that set the industrial revolution alight...' An emphatic concluding paragraph for a sober empirical study in economic history.